Side note: the reason the F-117 has geometric surfaces is that when it was being designed in the 60s and 70s there wasn't enough available computational power to calculate more complex shapes (e.g.

Rich & Leo Janos from Boffins Books in Perth, Australia. in which the technology is real (New York Times Book Review). I'd heard this before, but the actual genesis of Lockheed's Have Blue/F-117 was this:ġ) Petr Ufimtsev in the 1960s develops the equations for calculating the radar energy reflected by a given geometric configurationĢ) USAF notices and translates this into Englishģ) Denys Overholser and Bill Schroeder at Lockheed find, read, and implement it in software (which the Russians didn't have the computational power to do)Ĥ) Lockheed is looking for a new Skunkworks project (this is post-SR 71, and Kelly Johnson was transitioning out of Skunkworks after handing things over to Ben Rich) and decides to bet on stealth ('What?! That'll never work! It's crazy!')ĥ) Buy Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Skunk Works: a Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich 4.3 (7) Paperback 17.99 19. Rich of Oxnard, who headed Lockheed’s fabled Skunk Works during development of the Stealth fighter plane and wrote a book about his 40-year career with the. Anyway, great book, and having now remembered it, Im going to have to. ) on a recommendation from HN, and thoroughly enjoying it. Skunk Works is a personal memoir written by the chief engineer of Lockheed’s Skunk Works Ben Rick. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Leo Janos, Ben R. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R.

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